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• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use…
• No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
• We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that…
• I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might…
• Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
• I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
• I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to…
• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
• You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given…

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